Zhao Wei, one of the most famous stars in China, has been sued for staring too intensely at the plaintiff through the television screen.

A new court regulations system was passed in China, which authorities hoped would "put an end to obstructive behavior by courts and officials meddling in cases," according to The Associated Press. However, an unintended consequence of this change is the increase in frivolous cases like the man who claims Wei's stare caused him "spiritual damage."

It's a really weird, choice though. Of all the tiny towns in all the states in all the nation, and he comes to this one? That's only on the map because of an interior decorating show and a tragic biker shooting in a restaurant that's still closed?

It's a really weird, choice though. Of all the tiny towns in all the states in all the nation, and he comes to this one? That's only on the map because of an interior decorating show and a tragic biker shooting in a restaurant that's still closed?

Hmm... maybe I should head out to Waco and try to bump into him for an autograph. See if he can give me the phone numbers for Geoffrey Rush, Johnny, and Keira, too.

I would, however, like to be a fly on the wall if he's ever at Twisted Root, where they give you cards with celebrity/character names when your order's ready. Just to watch two people stand up when "Orlando Bloom" is called, only for the real Orlando Bloom to sit down, remembering that his card is "Danny deVito" or something.

The Police got a call from a 'concerned citizen' about a man carrying a gun, when the Police arrived at the scene a car chase ensued. The 35 year old shot at the police while driving his car away from them, so it was completely Texas.

None of the officers are suspended during the investigation as the act was considered legal, but they are on light work duty and are under their supervisors care encase of physiological trauma.

It is the fourth person that's been shot dead by Police Officers in Norway the last 14 years, it's a pretty high number.

It's really surreal, I'm fairly certain I know who the guy was, as he lives in same town as my dad does and I think his step daughter goes in same class as my little brother.

Human-Pig Hybrid Created in the Lab—Here Are the FactsScientists hope the chimera embryos represent key steps toward life-saving lab-grown organs.

In a remarkable—if likely controversial—feat, scientists announced today that they have created the first successful human-animal hybrids. The project proves that human cells can be introduced into a non-human organism, survive, and even grow inside a host animal, in this case, pigs.

This biomedical advance has long been a dream and a quandary for scientists hoping to address a critical shortage of donor organs.

The team then took stem cells from rats and injected them into pig blastocysts. This version failed—not surprisingly, since rats and pigs have dramatically different gestation times and evolutionary ancestors.

But pigs have a notable similarity to humans. Though they take less time to gestate, their organs look a lot like ours.

Not that these similarities made the task any easier. The team discovered that, in order to introduce human cells into the pigs without killing them, they had to get the timing just right.

“We tried three different types of human cells, essentially representing three different times” in the developmental process, explains Jun Wu, a Salk Institute scientist and the paper’s first author. Through trial and error, they learned that naïve pluripotent cells—stem cells with unlimited potential—didn’t survive as well as ones that had developed a bit more.

When those just-right human cells were injected into the pig embryos, the embryos survived. Then they were put into adult pigs, which carried the embryos for between three and four weeks before they were removed and analyzed.

So what happened here? Well, we finally have an explanation. After a lot of teasing, the Oregon State Police gave an explanation on their website about the incident, in a post titled "Slime Eel Crash on Highway 101".

They explain that the Mitsubishi truck (seen some distance from the slime-covered cars in the photos) was transferring 7,500 pounds of hagfish, known as "slime eels", despite not actually being eels, up the highway. When the vehicle was flagged to stop by a traffic cop, the driver, Salvatore Tragale, attempted to stop. Unfortunately, the transfer of weight caused one of the containers to come loose, and slide onto the road and tip over. The other containers soon followed suit, and separated from the bed of the truck, spilling onto the highway.

When one of the loose containers struck the Nissan car (covered in hagfish in the photographs above) it caused a pileup of cars behind it. The cars were covered in eels, with the Nissan at the front, driven by Kim Randall, 64, the unlucky recipient of the most fish.

Unfortunately for all involved, when hagfish become stressed they secrete mucus, which is the slime that can be seen in the photos and this video, captured by a witness.

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"The cars were covered in eels..."

...that were actually hagfish understandably freaking out and doing what hagfish do.

I'm curious how many drivers of those cars died, or at least half died on the inside, in this incident. Not from the accident, but from sheer horror. Not to mention a probably dumbfounded cop who decided to pull over the truck and watched it take place as a result.